Many people are libertarians - until the gas price doubles
As worldwide trust in US weapons got decimated the last year, the US industrial military complex aint that happy to lose shitload of money. Trump needed to give them some sort of compensation.
Also, distraction from the Epstein files.
Cleaning the wikipedia entry was successful
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00899885.pdf
Shape-shifting software and blockchain for security
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01735540.pdf
hacking team is surprisingly cheap
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00709316.pdf